Venolia Rabodiba

I am a scholar of regional politics, regional development, and regional integration in Southern Africa. My current research projects ethnographically examine the relationship between infrastructural development and decolonial futures in southern Africa. I earned my PhD in Anthropology from Stanford University in 2026. My doctoral dissertation was entitled “Assembling a Regional Community, Infrastructuralization, Regional Integration, and Triumphalism in southern Africa”. In my dissertation I argued that while historic investments in corridor connectivity infrastructure are part of a continuous project of assembling southern Africa as a techno-utopian geography; infrastructure, technological development, and technical expertise are necessary but insufficient conditions for the realization of a regional community.